US4279523A - Power recovery apparatus for an electric typewriter - Google Patents

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US4279523A
US4279523A US06/075,391 US7539179A US4279523A US 4279523 A US4279523 A US 4279523A US 7539179 A US7539179 A US 7539179A US 4279523 A US4279523 A US 4279523A
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  • the invention relates to an apparatus for returning the printing head of a typewriter to a restart escapement position after an interruption in the main power supply of the typewriter and, more particularly, to such an apparatus wherein a character is reprinted after a power interrupt if the power interrupt occurs before an inertial print point in the printing cycle of the character.
  • Electric typewriters that store and print selected characters are known to the art. Such electric typewriters typically have an electrically powered memory that stores coded representations of selected characters and a control apparatus, for example a microprocessor, that causes the character to be sequentially read from the memory and printed by a suitable printing apparatus.
  • a control apparatus for example a microprocessor
  • Another object of the invention is to provide such an apparatus, wherein the feedback angle of a print shaft of a typewriter is employed to define a particular point in time during a print cycle at which the printing apparatus will complete a printing operation even if power is removed, the point in time then being used to determine if a character should be required when power is returned.
  • a further object of the invention is to provide an apparatus including print status registers that store the identity and escapement positions of selected characters and that define the angular position of a print shaft at the time of a power interrupt.
  • the apparatus for recovering from an interruption of power to a printer includes memory means for storing the character identity and position codes of selected characters.
  • a print shaft is provided to define a print cycle for each character.
  • the cycle has print operations including an initiation operation, a completion operation and an intermediate operation that defines a point in time after which a character will be satisfactory printed even if power to the printer is lost.
  • a status latch is provided to indicate when the intermediate operation of a cycle has been executed.
  • a control means accesses particular character identity and position codes in the memory means in accordance with the condition of the status latch and the angular position of the print shaft, and defines a return escapement position when power is restored after a power interrupt.
  • a displacement means moves the print head of the printer to the return escapement position and normal printing is then resumed.
  • FIG. 1a is a diagrammatic illustration of a printer and printer control apparatus in accordance with the invention.
  • FIG. 1b is a front elevation view of a timer disk for the apparatus of FIG. 1a.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a flow chart of program steps for operating the printing apparatus of FIG. 1a to print selected characters and for detecting the occurrence of a power interrupt.
  • FIG. 3 is a timing diagram of the control signal for the cycle clutch of the print shaft of the apparatus of FIG. 1a.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates the cycle clutch control signal of FIG. 3 and additional control signals for the apparatus of FIG. 1a.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates a flow chart of program steps for a printer restart procedure in accordance with the invention.
  • FIG. 1a shows a diagrammatic view of a printer and associated control devices in accordance with the invention.
  • a printing unit 1 is employed to receive selected character codes and to print corresponding lines of characters.
  • the printing unit 1 may be an IBM 50 or 60 electric typewriter, although it should be understood that other typewriters may be employed without departing from the spirit of the invention.
  • the printing unit 1 of FIG. 1 includes a spherical printing element or head 3 that is supported on a carrier 5 and that is moved transversely by means of a leadscrew 7 that rotates to move the carrier 5 through successive printing positions along a line.
  • the leadscrew 7 is rotated by a motor 9 that is powered by a main power supply 11.
  • the leadscrew 7 rotates under the control of an escapement solenoid 13.
  • An extending arm 14 of the solenoid 13 engages a ratchet 8 and thereby blocks the rotational movement of the leadscrew 7 when the solenoid 13 is de-energized and disengages the ratchet 8 to allow the leadscrew 7 to rotate when the solenoid 13 is energized.
  • the motor 9 is also employed to rotate a print shaft 15 that is employed to drive the printing head 3 into contact with a platen 17 that supports a paper. A selected character is printed on the paper when the printing head 3 impacts the paper.
  • the print shaft 15 rotates under the control of a cycle clutch solenoid 19 that may be de-energized to engage a clutch latch 16 with a sleeve 20 of the print shaft 15 and to thereby hold the shaft 15 at a 0° reference position.
  • Energization of the clutch solenoid 19 causes the clutch latch 16 to disengage from the sleeve 20 of the print shaft 15, thereby allowing the shaft 15 to rotate from the 0° reference position through a 360° print cycle.
  • the print shaft 15 will continue to rotate to define successive print cycles for the printing head 3 if the clutch solenoid 19 is energized to avoid engaging the latch 16 and the sleeve 20 at the 0° reference position.
  • the printing head 3 strikes the platen 17 only once during a particular 360° printing cycle.
  • the shaft 15 and associated printing apparatus acquires a momentum that is sufficient to print a character, even if the printer loses main power immediately after the printing shaft 15 reaches the 85° point.
  • the 85° cycle position of the print shaft 15 defines a point at which the printer will carry through a satisfactory print operation by inertia.
  • a print point may be defined with respect to operations other than mechanical operations and conditions other than inertial conditions.
  • the print point may be defined as the point at which the thermal elements of the printer are sufficiently heated to cause a printed character to appear on thermal paper even though power is simultaneously or subsequently dropped from the printer.
  • a printer interface 25 sends a coded signal corresponding to the identity of the selected character to the printing unit 1 and the signal is utilized in a manner known to the art to position a corresponding character on the printing head 3 to strike the platen 17 at a particular time after the inertial print point of 85° is reached.
  • the lead screw 7 is rotated to move the carrier 5 and associated printing head 3 to a particular position at which the selected character is to be printed.
  • the printing unit 1 and printer interface 25 of FIG. 1a are controlled by a control unit 21, for example a microprocessor, and an associated RAM memory 23. More particularly, in operation, characters are successively selected on a keyboard 27 and coded representations of the characters are stored in the RAM memory 23 by the control unit 21. If the typewriter is a proportional spacing typewriter, the spacing between adjacent characters may also be stored in the RAM memory 23.
  • various memory registers or locations in the RAM memory 23 are employed to store character position information and character identification information so that the characters that are entered on the keyboard 27 may be properly printed by the printing unit 1.
  • the registers or memory locations are also utilized by the control unit 21 to return the printing unit 1 to a proper operational condition following a loss of main power from the power supply 11 during a printing operation.
  • the main power of the power supply 11 When the main power of the power supply 11 is turned off during a printing operation, either due to a power malfunction or due to the closing of a "keep alive" switch 18, operational power is supplied to the memory 23 (including a status latch 29) by an auxiliary power supply 22, for example batteries. Also, the main power supply 11 applies a "power down" signal to the control unit 21 to notify the control unit 21 that a power loss has occurred. Thereafter, the control unit 21 stores data in the RAM memory 23 and the status latch 29 to define a proper operational state for the printing unit 1 when power is returned.
  • a character may or may not have been printed with sufficient force to produce a discernible imprint on the paper.
  • the printing head 3 may be stopped in an intermediate position. Accordingly, when main power is returned it is necessary to return the printing head 3 to the character position following the last discernible character that was printed immediately prior to the power interruption.
  • the main power supply 11 When the main power from the main power supply 11 is returned due to a correction of the power defect or to the opening of the keep alive switch 18, the main power supply 11 sends a power on reset signal to the control unit 21, thereby notifying the control unit 21 that main power has returned. Thereafter, the control unit 21 accesses the RAM memory 23 and status latch 29 and defines an appropriate return printing position for the printing head 3 of the printing unit 1. The printing head 3 is then moved to the computed return position and printing is resumed.
  • the control unit 21 evaluates the activity of the printing head 3 immediately prior to the loss of main power, and, if the head 3 was in the act of printing a particular character, it is determined whether the character was printed after power was removed. If the character was printed, the printing head 3 is positioned at a next successive printing position to begin printing the character following the previously printed character. However, if the interruption of main power was sufficiently early in a printing cycle to prevent the proper printing of a particular character, the control unit 21 returns the printing head 3 to the position of the character and prints the character when power returns, and then prints additional characters in accordance with the normal operation of the printing unit 1.
  • a memory fail latch 31 is provided to indicate if auxiliary power to the RAM memory 23 is lost while the printing unit 1 is de-energized. If the memory fail latch 31 indicates that auxiliary power was interrupted, the control unit 21 will not access the RAM memory 23 to obtain position status data when main power is returned, since the loss of auxiliary power to the memory 23 will cause the data in the memory 23 to be destroyed. Accordingly, in the event that auxiliary power is lost while main power is interrupted, the control unit 21 will return the printing head 3 to a particular starting position when power is returned, for example the printing head 3 may be returned to the far left margin of the printer.
  • control unit 21 operates to store the characters in the RAM memory 23 and to sequentially apply the characters to the printing unit 1 through the printer interface 25.
  • the control unit 21 operates the cycle clutch solenoid 19 and escape solenoid 13 to cause the printing head 3 to print the stored characters.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates a flow chart of a program that may be used by the control unit 21 to control the operation of the printing unit 1.
  • the program steps of FIG. 2 will be explained with respect to registers or memory locations of the RAM memory 23 designated CURNT, CHAR, D and NEXT. Of course, the designations correspond to particular addresses in the RAM memory 23.
  • FIG. 1a The operation of the embodiment of FIG. 1a will also be described with respect to the timing diagram of FIG. 3 wherein a control signal for the clutch solenoid 19 of the print shaft 15 is shown.
  • the high portion of the signal of FIG. 3 corresponds to an energization condition of the clutch solenoid 19 and a corresponding disengagement of a clutch latch 16 from a sleeve 20 of the print shaft 15.
  • the low portion of the signal of FIG. 3 corresponds to a de-energization condition of the clutch solenoid 19 and a corresponding extension of the clutch latch 16 of the clutch solenoid 19 to engage a corresponding sleeve 20 of the print shaft 15 at the 0° reference position of the print shaft 15.
  • the initial conditions for the program are set by defining the contents of the destination register D and the register NEXT as e(1) or, in the case of the present example, as b'.
  • the register CURNT is cleared to 0
  • a counter n is set equal to 1
  • a line parameter k is set to the maximum possible line escapement destination for the printing unit 1 and a value of zero is written to a printer interface buffer 34.
  • the printing head 3 moves to print characters at positions on a line between a far left margin and a far right margin of the printing unit 1. Accordingly, for purposes of discussion, the printing position at the far left margin of the printing unit 1 is given the numerical designation 0 and each successive character position is assigned a number increased by one over the number of the previous character position. The numerical designation of the character position at the far right margin of the printing unit 1 is, of course, the maximum line escapement destination.
  • the D register stores a numerical amount corresponding to a particular line destination for the printing head 3 and the NEXT and CURNT registers may store numerical amounts corresponding to particular incremental distances to be moved by the printing head 3 between successive character positions.
  • the contents of the memory location M(1) is initially read and, since the stored coded representation at the location M(1) corresponds to the first selected character, the character "A" is stored in the CHAR register. Thereafter, the status latch 29 is cleared so that the latch 29 contains a 0 and the contents of the register NEXT is stored in the CURNT register. Thereafter, the NEXT register is set to zero and the contents of the CHAR register is written to the printer interface 25, where it is stored in a buffer 33. A start-print command is then sent from the control unit 21 to the printer interface 25 and the printer unit 1. As shown in FIG.
  • the start print command from the control unit 21 energizes the cycle clutch solenoid 13, thereby allowing the print shaft 15 to begin rotating to print the character A that is stored in the CHAR register and buffer 33.
  • the point in time at which the above start print command is generated is designated 35 in FIG. 3.
  • the program of FIG. 2 may compare the destination value b' in the destination register D with the maximum line destination k and, if b' is equal to or less than k, the escapement value c' at e(2) is stored in NEXT and is also added to the contents of the destination register D. While the control unit 21 is executing the above-mentioned program steps, the print shaft 15 is continuing to rotate from the 0° position at the start point 35 to an 85° position at a subsequent point in time designated 37. Thus, it should be understood that the escapement value c' is placed in the register NEXT and is added to the destination register D at some point in time between the start point 35 and the 85° and 37.
  • the momentum of the print mechanism is sufficient to complete the printing of the character A, even if there is an interruption in the main power supply 11.
  • the print shaft 15 carries a feedback switch 39 that opens and closes its switch contacts in accordance with the angular position of the print shaft 15.
  • the feedback switch 39 generates a print feedback signal PFB that rises when the print shaft 15 is at its 85° position and that falls when the print shaft 15 is at its 300° angular position.
  • the PFB signal is applied to the set input of the status latch 29 so that the rising edge of PFB sets the status latch 29 to a high or 1 state.
  • the print shaft 15 is at its 85° angular position and the PFB signal is applied to set the status latch 29.
  • the program of FIG. 2 continuously reads the state of the status latch 29 until the latch 29 is set to a high or 1 state at the time 37.
  • the numerical escapement increment b' in the CURNT register is written into the buffer 34 of the printer interface 25. Thereafter, the CURNT register is cleared to 0, the counter n is incremented by 1 and the program moves back to read the next memory location M(2), which contains the character "B".
  • the control program of FIG. 2 executes an end print to turn off the start print signal. Accordingly, the clutch solenoid 19 is de-energized and the clutch latch 16 is extended. However, the print shaft 15 continues to rotate since the extended latch 16 of the clutch solenoid 19 will not engage the sleeve 20 of the print shaft 15 until the print shaft 15 reaches the 360° position at the end of the print cycle.
  • the character is stored in the CHAR register, the status latch 29 is cleared, the value of c' in the register NEXT is written to the buffer 33 of the printer interface 25 and the start print signal is again generated by the control unit 21 to energize the clutch solenoid 19 at a start point 41. It should be appreciated that the print shaft 15 will continue to rotate since the clutch solenoid 19 is energized to release the clutch latch 16 prior to the 360° end of cycle for the previously printed character.
  • the program of FIG. 2 will be executed in the above-described manner to write the contents of e(3) or d' into the register NEXT and to increment the destination register D by d' at some point in time between the second start point 41 and the 85° print point 45 for the B character.
  • the momentum of the print shaft 15 and associated print apparatus is sufficient to print the selected character A.
  • the printing head 3 moves to contact a paper that is supported on the platen 17 and the printing head 3 impacts the paper at a designated print impact point 43, at which point the character A is printed on the paper.
  • the unequal compare of buffer 34 and counter 53 causes a pick signal to be applied to escapement solenoid 13 that controls the movement of the leadscrew 7. Accordingly, as shown in FIG. 4, the compare 55 output is used to energize the escapement solenoid 13 and to thereby allow the leadscrew 7 to begin moving after the print impact point 43. As the leadscrew 7 rotates, an attached timer disk 47 also rotates.
  • the timer disk 47 has slots 48 arranged about its periphery.
  • a light source for example a light emitting diode (LED) 49
  • a photodetector for example a phototransistor 51
  • the slots 48 pass between the LED 49 and phototransistor 51 and intermittently establish an optical path between the LED 49 and phototransistor 51.
  • the phototransistor 51 generates emitter pulses that correspond to the rotation of the leadscrew 7.
  • the emitter pulses are applied to the input of counter 53 of the printer interface 25, the counter 53 having been previously cleared by the leading edge of the PFB signal.
  • the buffer 34 of the printer interface 25 contains an incremental escapement value b' that was written to the buffer 33 at the time period 37.
  • the emitter pulses are applied to increment the contents of the counter 53 so that the output of the counter 53 corresponds to the incremental escapement movement of the printing head 3 in response to the rotation of the leadscrew 7.
  • the contents of the buffer 34 and the count state of the counter 53 are compared by the comparator 55 and, when the contents b' of the buffer 34 matches the incremented contents of the counter 53, the comparator 55 generates a signal that de-energizes the escapement solenoid 13 and thereby causes the solenoid 13 to engage the ratchet 8 and to stop the rotation of the leadscrew 7.
  • the leadscrew 7 begins to rotate at the print impact point 43 and continues to rotate to displace the printing head 3 a distance corresponding to the escapement value b' that is stored in the buffer 34.
  • the escapement movement of the printing head 3 will be completed by the time period 45 at which the print shaft 15 is at its 85° angular position.
  • the character B will be printed on the paper at a print point 57 and the program of FIG. 2 will execute a start print for the character "C" at a start point 56.
  • the escapement solenoid 13 and the leadscrew 7 will be operated to move the printing head 3 an escapement distance c' during the time period between the print point 57 and a subsequent point 61 at which the print shaft 15 reaches an 85° angular position in its print cycle for the character C.
  • the identity of the character to be printed is stored in the CHAR register of the RAM memory 23.
  • the contents of the CHAR register is written to a character store buffer 33 of the printer interface 25 at the time that the character is stored in the CHAR register, for example at the time 35 for the character A and at the time 41 for the character B.
  • the coded word in the buffer store 33 may then be applied to character select logic 62 that operates in a manner known to the art to select the particular corresponding character on the printing head 3, so that the selected character will impact the paper on the platen 17 at an impact point, for example 45 or 47.
  • the escapement value in the destination register D is compared to the maximum line destination parameter k. If the contents of register D is greater than the parameter k, the destination register D is cleared, the usual escapement displacement value is inserted in the register NEXT and is added to the cleared D register and the status latch 29 is continuously checked until the latch 29 is set. However, after the status latch 29 is set, the carrier 5 is returned, the counter n is incremented, the end print signal is generated and the program is returned to its start point to begin printing characters from the beginning of a line in the manner described above.
  • the flow chart of FIG. 2 has been explained with respect to an incrementing counter n that is incremented for as long as the apparatus of the invention continues to receive characters from the keyboard 27 and to print the characters on the printing unit 1.
  • the RAM memory 23 has a finite capacity and, of course, once a character has been printed, the corresponding character code may be erased from the memory 23.
  • a more complex memory access scheme may be employed to access current data from the RAM memory 23.
  • the simple counter n of the flow chart of FIG. 2 has been employed to illustrate an easily understood method for sequentially selecting data from the RAM memory 23. It should be appreciated that other known access schemes may be employed to access the RAM memory 23, without departing from the spirit of the invention.
  • the status latch 29 is set by the leading edge of the PFB signal of the print shaft 15 and is cleared by the control unit 21 when the control unit 21 begins a print cycle for a particular character.
  • the output of the control latch 29 is illustrated in FIG. 4 to show the relationship between the operational condition of the latch 29 and the other control signals of the apparatus of the invention.
  • FIG. 5 illustrates a flow chart of a power interrupt program that is accessed by the control unit 21 when main power is lost.
  • the main power supply 11 generates a power down signal to the control unit 21 when main power is lost and, as shown in FIG. 2, the control unit 21 checks for the power down signal at several points in the flow chart of FIG. 2.
  • the power down signal of the main power supply 11 does not interrupt the control unit 21 during times when the control unit 21 is writing data to the registers of the RAM memory 23 or the status register 29.
  • the condition of the power down signal would be monitored immediately after the start print signal is generated and the corresponding RAM memory registers and status latch 29 have been written.
  • condition of the power down signal would be monitored while the control unit 21 is continually monitoring the condition of the status latch 29 after the start print signal has been generated.
  • the condition of the power down signal would also be monitored just prior to the reading of a new character from the RAM memory 23.
  • the check point at which the failure is detected is saved in RAM memory 23 to be used when resuming normal printer operation after the recovery sequence is complate, and program control is transferred to the interrupt routine of FIG. 5, wherein the control unit 21 continuously monitors the condition of the power down signal until power to the control unit 21 is dropped or the power down signal switches to an inactive level.
  • the condition of the memory fail latch 31 is first checked to determine if the latch 31 is set. As explained previously, the memory fail latch 31 will be set if the RAM memory 23 loses power at any time during the interruption of printer power. If the memory fail latch 31 is set, the control unit 21 will act to reset all memory units and to move the printing head 3 to the left margin. Thereafter, control will be returned to the print control program of FIG. 2 so that new characters may be entered from the keyboard 27.
  • the escapement solenoid 13 will be operated to allow the leadscrew 7 to rotate and to slowly move the carrier 5 and supported printing head 3 towards the left margin of the printing unit 1.
  • the timer disk 47 and associated optical apparatus will generate a continuous stream of emitter pulses.
  • the leadscrew 7 will stop rotating and, therefore, emitter pulses will no longer be generated. The absence of emitter pulses indicates that the carrier 5 has reached the left margin.
  • the state of the continuous stream of emitter pulses may be monitored by applying the pulses to clear a counter 60 that is being simultaneously incremented by input clock pulses. Since the emitter pulses are continuously applied to clear the counter 60, the contents of the counter 60 will not be incremented to a particular overflow count state until the emitter pulses cease. Thus, when the emitter pulses are no longer generated, the counter 60 is quickly incremented to an overflow count state that may be applied to indicate that the emitter pulses have stopped and that, therefore, the carrier 5 has reached the left margin. It should be understood that other means may be employed to register a return to the left margin without departing from the spirit of the invention.
  • a return escapement destination RET is computed by subtracting the contents of the CURNT register and the NEXT register from the contents of the destination register D.
  • the destination register D will have been incremented to b'+c', the register NEXT will contain c' and the CURNT register will have been set to 0.
  • the return destination RET will be equal to b'. Accordingly, when power is returned, the carrier 5 will be moved to the left margin and, thereafter, the carrier 5 will be moved forward an escapement distance b' to the B character position.
  • the printing head 3 is returned to the B character position in this case because the power interrupt occurred after the shaft 15 reached the 85° print point 37 and, therefore, even though a power interrupt occurred at point 67, the character A was printed.
  • the desitination register D may contain an escapement value of b'+c'
  • the register NEXT may contain 0
  • the status latch 29 is checked to determine if the latch 29 is in the set or 1 state. If the status latch 29 is set at 1, the program control is passed from the restart procedure of FIG. 5 to the calling point of the program of FIG. 2. However, if the status latch 29 is not set and if CHAR does not contain a shift code, the code in CHAR must be written to the printer interface buffer 33 before program control is returned to the calling program, since the power down condition destroyed the contents of the buffer 33.
  • the control unit 21 determines if the printer is operated in the desired case. If the printer is in the desired case, a THUMP is issued to the printer interface 25 and program control is returned to the program of FIG. 2. However, if the printer interface 25 is not in the desired case, a shift is sent to the printer interface 25 and program control is returned to the program of FIG. 2.
  • the apparatus for providing a shift of the printer is not shown in FIG. 1a since such apparatus is well known to the art.
  • the embodiment of FIG. 1a utilizes the contents of the status latch 29 to determine whether a power interrupt occurs before or after the 85° print point in a print cycle and thereby determines whether or not to reprint the character of the interrupted cycle.
  • a less complex power interrupt return program may be provided wherein the carrier 5 is always returned to the position of the character that was to be printed during the interrupted printing cycle.
  • the contents of the various registers would be adjusted to provide a return to a particular character position if a power interrupt occurs at any time between the starting and ending of the printing cycle of the character.
  • the character A would be reprinted if a power interrupt occurs at any time between the designated times 35 and 41 of FIG. 3.

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